Re: Unicode text and class URL
Re: Unicode text and class URL
- Subject: Re: Unicode text and class URL
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:52:04 -0800
At 11:52p -0800 03/21/2004, Bill Hoffman didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
I set a variable to a URL string with:
set x to "http://www.apple.com";
In the script editor x is created as an object of class string. I
can then successfully create an object of class URL from it with:
x as URL
If I grab a URL from Safari with:
"tell app 'safari' to set x to URL of document 1"
it returns a Unicode text string. Converting that to an object of
class URL with:
x as URL
fails with the error message "Can't make ..... into a URL". Even if
I coerce that Unicode text string to a plain text string, "x as URL"
will still fail with the same error.
It's not really a plain text string -- it's styled text.
Is this an issue with Safari? with AppleScript? Shouldn't I be able
to grab the URL string from Safari and coerce it to class URL?
Arguably, but Apple didn't implement anything to make that happen.
Thanks in advance for any explanation, if there is one.
Coercion to the URL class requires an unstyled text string. Folks
have come up with various ways to unstyle a styled text string.
Here's a way which combines methods from different threads that have
appeared here:
tell app "Safari" to set x to URL of document 1 as record as list
item 1 of x as URL
-boo
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